Word: institutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suffocation. Colorado-born Economist Mather was 39 when he took over in 1954 -the nation's youngest land-grant college president. What he got for the honor was a stepchild institution, utterly straitjacketed by the state's frugal division of personnel and standardization, which controlled teachers and salaries...
Along a carnival-like half-mile of self-service counters and dashing pushcarts sat Tiki gods and aloha shirts, maki sushi and hibiscus plants. Through the aisles milled thousands of customers as varied and colorful as the more than 10,000 items stacked neatly on the shelves. They bore in...
With stocks, bonds and Buchwald, the Paris Trib has left other English-language papers far behind on the Continent; the New York Times's slender International edition (circulation about 8,000), printed in Amsterdam, reaches readers a full day or more after the Trib. "Le New York," as the...
As administrative assistant to the late Vincent Astor, and temporary administrator of his estate, I am distressed to find that TIME, in its issue of Aug. 3, published an erroneous statement to the effect that Captain Astor was a patient in the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic at the time his...
SHADOW OF GUILT, by Patrick Quenfin (211 pp.; Random House; $2.95), has a hero who is both a stuffed shirt and a weakling. He hesitates to tell his wife, a beautiful, bustling, overbearing heiress, that he wants to divorce her and marry his secretary, a colorless, clinging type named Eve...